The history of AI that no one ever told you

28 May 2025 · 14 min
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A German-language YouTube video by Matt Wolfe giving a chronological, high-level history of AI from the rule-based era through modern deep learning. It traces milestones and turning points — Turing Test (1950), Dartmouth (1956), Perceptron (1957), ELIZA (1966), Backpropagation (1986), LeNet (1989), Deep Blue (1997), GeForce 256 (1999), Deep Belief Nets (2006), CUDA (2007) — then the rapid rise of GPU-accelerated deep learning and transformer-based large models: IBM Watson (Jeopardy, 2011), Siri (2011), Google Brain (2012), DQN (2013), GANs (2014), TPUs (2015), AlphaGo (2016), "Attention Is All You Need" (2017), OpenAI GPT series (2018–2023+), AlphaFold 2 (2020), image models (2021–2022), ChatGPT (Nov 2022) and subsequent 2023–2025 developments (GPT-4, Llama, Gemini, Sora, Blackwell GPUs). The narrator frames these as drivers of exponential progress and argues a future AI winter is unlikely given pervasive adoption, while noting rapid change can obscure perception of exponential growth.

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